Author: richholton

Description:
For a non-anonymous user, if there is a "User talk" page, then a default "User"
page should be created if there is none.

Currently, if user Foo has no user page, a link like [[User:Foo]] will show red.
If this link is clicked, then then User:Foo's home page will be opened for edit.
A newbie may not realize that you can jump to the user's talk page from the edit
page. This leads to confusion.

Some users intentionally maintain blank user pages for the purpose of
maintaining this red link. Regardless of the motivation, this is an abuse of the
intent of the "red link" system, which is intended to indicate a page that needs
to be created.

The auto-created user page could be completely blank, or it could just contain a
link to the user's talk page, or even a redirect to the talk page. However, the
user page should not be deletable if a sub-page exists.

Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement